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Put on a backpack, wrap a 45lb plate with a towel or 2 , then go run 3 to 5 miles. Enjoy.
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I am 64 and walk 8 miles a day. I am confident I would be able to do the test.
WS
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15 min miles...
45 pds.
Just the pack?
No dome of obedience/ brain bucket?
No lbv loaded up with water and ammo?
Vest with front plate?
Wpn?
Easy with just a pack weighing that.
12 miles 3 hrs
24 miles 6hrs.
Loaded like a armed pack mule with a 55 60 pd ruck.
Homie don't and couldn't do that schit anymore.
Been almost 14 yrs....
45 pds
3 miles level terrian
15 min miles
Can I smoke also???
👍👍👍🙂
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Campfire Kahuna
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That’s gonna be a NO for me. I’ll bring the marshmallows though 😀
My knees do barely enough to carry my gravely, morbidly obese body around. lol
#hogkitty
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Mopp4 2 mile run 8: 30 min pace.
Suck meter pegged out...
Mopp4 12 mile rd march from Hovey, up face of Casey 39er, to ROK Airborne Pass, down thru Dragon Valley, and back up to Hovey.
4 hours for that one.
Bn cmdr got his azz chewed for that one from Bde Cmdr after the 3rd jungle penetrator medevac of line dogs and HHC types on the face of Casey 39er that day.
Suck meter broke the metal stem and pegged out on the glass that day.
24 milers are a gut check and a team building thru common suffereance experience.
Bout 3 asprin every 6 miles dissolved on your tongue help.
But the next day your walking around like Festus from gunsmoke all fuuucked up.
Do em on a Friday morning.
Start about an hour before sunup.
Cut your boys loose afterwards around 10 am to call it a weekend.
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μολὼν λαβέ
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Campfire 'Bwana
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8 mile gorilla runs suck too...
Run half a mile or so.
Do push ups, sit up,s , mountain climbers.
Ect ect ect.
Repeat runs varying paces....
Ground medevac runs in Battle Rattle suck also...
Glad I'm retired.
I might run 50 to a couple hundred yards varying speeds and using terrian to get a shot on a deer after a fast decision making process now.
Nothing to lose
Everything to gain sorta thing.
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Yes. Without a doubt, but I'm only 51.
I sure could go for some $2.50/gal gas and a mean tweet!
NRA Benefactor member, disgruntled.
Life member: Firearms Owners Against Crime.
Life member: GOA
Member: RMEF
TRUMP 2020
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I don't think so, I've fat, and 78 years old.
These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o
"May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Wabi you can man the turn around point and give some encouragement and yell out times👍👍👍😁😁😁
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Campfire Kahuna
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 I'd race in the mile run in basic! I just talked to our youngest daughter, she's been running since 6:15.
These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o
"May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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Before I shattered my ankle and had it fused, I'd have said yes. I could still walk that far with the same amount of weight, but it would probably take me an hour. If I trained for it, I could probably get it done right at 45 min, but my left leg would be doing most the work.
I'm amazed at how much leg strength I've lost in my right leg since my accident. It sure has slowed me down, in the walking department and I can't really run anymore. I still walk 3-5 miles a day on average at work on railroad ballast.
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Not no, but "Hell NO!"!!!! LOL!
No brag, just fact!
Between arthritic joints, pins, implants and a crushed heel, I feel extremely lucky I'm walking --- much less three miles in 45 minutes.
....but I admire those that can....or do!
😉
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Yep, I just took mine Wednesday. It will be the last one for me. 32 years of doing that line of work is enough.
I am always looking for factory wood stocks!
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"Successful is leaving something in better shape than you inherited it in. Keep that in mind, son." Dad
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That’s gonna be a NO for me. I’ll bring the marshmallows though 😀
My knees do barely enough to carry my gravely, morbidly obese body around. lol
#hogkitty "are you in shape?" "yes Sir, round is a shape!" lol...
GOA
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I’m out of shape now days but that’s still pretty easy. The way the test is set up is stupid and pointless anyway.
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Yes, I could do it. I’m not in very good shape but the boy and I go to the boundary waters every spring. I carry a 45# pack there and then some. He carries the same pack plus the canoe around 95#. Sorry to hear of the injuries and surgeries many have had. I’m always sore and not sure why, always have been but today I feel fortunate to be able to do what I can do.
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I sure as hell hope so, not exactly an Olympic feat.
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My give a phuque and bucket list in this category were complete years ago! Now, if I had to do this, I reckon I could, but I would need a few doobies, a bottle of Hooten and Young and a few days off afterwards!
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